Occupation: Legal Scholar Birth: September 21, 1954
We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true..
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale..
I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating..
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology..
I think it may be that the fans of your least-favorite political candidate, whoever it is, are much more likable and light-side types than you might ….
The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer,….
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what….
I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic….
For the Sanders supporters, there's a thought that the people who are well off are doing really great, and the system is systematically unfair, and t….
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters….
We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from ….
I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficul….
My friend jewelry designer Courtney Crangi has been obsessed with Star Wars all her life and has seen the movies 150 times. When we first started tal….
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do t….
If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea..
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like ….
I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good..
I love The Matrix, especially the first one..
The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving..